His First Baby Rodeo by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

EL

It’s only temporary. The words had become a refrain in El’s head over the past few weeks. This is only temporary.

But it had also become increasingly possible to forget the fact that it was supposed to be temporary. It didn’t feel temporary. Which wasn’t to say that it felt permanent, either — it simply felt like what was happening right now, and El didn’t feel too compelled to think about the future.

The two of them kept separate bedrooms, which felt important. If she had fallen asleep in his arms, El thought, it would have meant something more significant than their current occasional trysts did. She wouldn’t have been able to write that off nearly as easily. And waking up in his arms would have been another ordeal entirely. She had no idea how that would have made her feel, but she was sure it would make her feel something.

Hooking up in the stable was something else altogether. It was fun — wildly fun — but it definitely didn’t leave her feeling anything more complicated than a deep physical satisfaction. She pulled her shorts back on and brushed the hay out of her hair — she was definitely going to need a shower later.

“I think we gave those poor horses a show they won’t forget anytime soon,” Mac chuckled as he straightened his clothes. “Was it good for you?”

“It always is,” she said, grinning. “If I’d known you were this good, I would have tried to get in your bed years ago, Mac.”

“If I’d known you were this good, I might’ve let you,” he said. “Maybe that other jerk you dated would never have been in the picture.”

This was the closest either of them ever came to referring to themselves as a couple in any sense — implying that if they had discovered one another sooner, there would have been no need for Dean’s presence in El’s life. It felt a little risky to put things in those terms, since her relationship with Dean had been a romantic one, but even so… Mac was right to say it, and it was a fun thought to banter with.

“Dean couldn’t hold a candle to you,” she said. “I mean, I always knew he was no superstar, but I never knew how much better it could get.”

“If you’d known, would you have dumped him sooner?”

“Probably,” she said with a grin, even though she didn’t know for sure. “I’d have dumped him and had wild affairs with as many men as possible.”

“Hey, as long as one of them was me, that sounds pretty good,” Mac teased her.

“Of course one of them would be you,” she said. “That part isn’t up for debate.”

He stayed out with her that day while she finished the ranch chores. It was a pattern the two of them had fallen into, even though it was understood between them at this point that she didn’t need to be monitored, that she could be entrusted with the chores without having him looking over her shoulder.

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